Vicki Jenkins holds an Associates Degree in acting from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts: having studied both at the New York and Hollywood campuses. She attended an additional third year at the as a member of the Academy Company performing in a season of plays: playing a full range of characters from Reggie Fluttie in the Laramie Project to Mary Hanes in the Women.

Vicki has studied improv at the Second City Training Centre in Toronto. Completing both the Beginning Program and the Conservatory Program, working with an ensemble cast to write and perform a SecondCity style review.

She has performed at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, various theatres in Los Angeles and from time to time hawks goods for soulless corporations in TV commercials.

You will be able to catch Vicki performing in ECT's production of She's Mine that runs until May 3rd. For more details, check the upcoming shows page, or click the poster for the show below:

Bryan:
Congratulations on being nominated the May 2009 Artist of the Month. Tell me a bit about how you got started out in theatre. 

Vicki: 
I've been acting since high school, did the usual move to Toronto...started studying at the Second City, auditioning...but it wasn't really what I was hoping for so I packed up and hopped on a plane to study further at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

Bryan:
Who were the people who influenced you the most or inspired you the most to pursue the arts?

Vicki:
Hmm, that's tough, I think I've known I wanted to be an actor since I was in JK.  My family has always been super supportive of my crazy little journeys.  Who inspires me...Kermit.

Bryan:
What is the most memorable performance you've seen to date?

Vicki: 
I've seen so many beautiful and funny things, many moons ago I saw Timothy Findleys 'Not Wanted on the Voyage" at Can Stage, that has stuck with me.  I also saw Gary Sinise in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", also very memorable. 

Bryan:
How much wood could a wood-chuck chuck if a wood-chuck could chuck wood?

Vicki:
Only as much as he needed, he'd try to sustain the forest.

Bryan:
Tell me about an embarrassing moment you may have had while in a show or someone else’s embarrassing moment in a show you have seen:

Vicki: 
Embarrassing moments, usually just try to forget those; I did a show with the Second City Conservatory and couldn't keep a straight face, kept cracking up in one scene... what can I say, it was a funny scene.  I played Mary Haines in the women and forgot to take off my wedding ring...I didn't notice until I was proclaiming how great independence was and how I was adjusting to life after the divorce...tried to slip it off casually, but  I'm sure everyone saw it happen.

Bryan:
If you could play any role in any play with any other actors... who would you play, in what show and with who as your supporting cast?

Vicki:
Again, there could be so many answers to this...let's say, "Night Mother" with Meryl Streep, with Howard Shangraw directing!

Bryan:
Thanks for being a good sport, congratulations once again!